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2. Walt's Call To Skyler

After failing to save Hank's life, losing the bulk of his drug money, having Skyler and Walt Jr. turn on him, and seeing his kidnapped infant daughter cry out for her mother, Walter realizes he's hit rock bottom.

He places a call to Skyler to chew her out for revealing his secret to Walt Jr., verbally abusing her with a tirade that's surely been building since the beginning of Season 3. But as with everything on this show, there's more than just a domestic grievance being aired out in this call.

Walt repeatedly alludes to the notion that Skyler has no idea what he does and that she constantly held him back from building his drug empire, which he did anyway, all by himself. Walt is not only getting all his pent-up rage off his chest in this scene, he's absolving Skyler of her criminal involvement to the cops he knows are listening.

Bryan Cranston absolutely nails this scene, reaching new depths of malicious depravity in the language he uses with Skyler, all while genuine tears stream down his face. This is Bryan Cranston pretending to be Walter White pretending to be Heisenberg in order to save what little remains of his family.